skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's transformative to treat recommendation as a classification problem the way TikTok does

Treating recommendation as a classification problem has all sorts of flaws, mostly down to normalizing the user's indications into a larger model. People will be more passive sometimes and more engaged at other times. Sometimes they'll blindly accept and watch everything that comes along (or blindly swipe right on every match, etc); other times they'll be very choosey.

It's kind of the same problems that asking users for star ratings has — people interpret the meaning of "one star" or "three stars" or "five stars" differently; and there are selection biases on when people will bother to vote at all. (The Netflix Prize was a challenge for a reason!)

You can avoid all these temporal and selection biases, though, because content recommendation is actually ultimately a ranking problem: any recommendation algorithm ultimately wants to generate a subjective ranking of its universe of items, such that everything gets put in a sequence, with the thing the user would most like to see next, first.

And conveniently, we already have a mathematically-perfect way to do ranking: ELO. Or, in app UX terms: the classical HotOrNot design, where you're presented with exactly two options, and you have to pick one as being better than the other. And you get to see the each option several times, paired against different other options each time.

In user-engagement terms, a HotOrNot interface would be just as much of a "dark pattern" as a Tinder interface. But in recommendation-tuning terms, the backend of a HotOrNot-UX app could build you a subjective scoring function that's much more accurate, much sooner.

> you can't conclude anything at all because a user didn't click on an item

The real negative signal that sites like YouTube (and to a degree, TikTok) use, is landing on something though a more passive engagement action (e.g. auto-play next) and this inducing engagement in a previously-passively-consuming user to "get away" from this content.
"European Countries before the Napoleonic Age were quite a bit "intertwined""

Excellent contribution. Marion Gräfin Dönhof talks about this, a descendant of both Prussian and newly turned "Polish" political elite and aristocracy. Some of her german ancestors adopted polish names and became thus polish. Before the rise of nationalism, there was not really such a gap between nations as today. Germans sometimes even ruled parts of Poland with no issues. There were also special laws and leaders in Poland exclusively for Germans, in other words, the Germans in Poland ruled themselves, living side by side respectfully with the Polish people. All of this makes one ask what nations really are and what national identity really is in the end, beyond political propaganda. National coherence was forced onto people everywhere, with dramatic consequences and suffering.

People have lived hundreds or even thousands of years without the need for unified nations, often many different cultures coexisting with each other under a banner of a "nation", which was mostly just the culture of a given ruling aristocracy at that time.
What the article does not seem to mention is that an usual electric wheelchair costs about $65,000 (and is intended to be replaced every six years or so). This and the non-availability of replacement parts is why some wheelchair users started a project to open-source a wheelchair from standard parts:

https://themif.org/

Louis Rossmann interviewed the founder of the project here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaAj59025Kk
I heard you've gone through quite a few drummers, actually.

List of Spinal Tap Drummers, all deceased
https://zeroenthusiasm.tumblr.com/post/47032679583/list-of-s...
> I think people creating "AI Startups" are looking at things backward. There is this new technology and they are trying to look for ways to use the tech and call it a company.

That seems like a pervasive cultural problem with the technology industry generally, and silicon valley/startups in particular. And collectively, we don't seem to be learning. Didn't we just go though this with blockchain, like yesterday?
Sure, but I would have expected them to be modular enough to keep running more than 5 years. More so given they cost as much as a used car.
I do close a tab when I've finished reading it, or otherwise don't need it anymore.
I saw a startup working adjacent to this, https://www.thefittingroom.tech, they tell you what size to order based on phone/tablet scans.
...are you hiring?
I know that tesla's won't allow you to drive while charging the car. It throws an error if it's plugged in, so, that's a no-go without significant hackery.

That said, they certainly have tow-behind generators, and they're certainly available for rent, it's just without modification you'd have to stop in order to charge. I've seen people with a model X doing exactly this out in the desert. Seemed to be an ok solution honestly, because they were camping and had genset power for camping needs, assuming of course that the whole electricity while camping thing is something you're into.
I’m not sure of the other two provinces mentioned, but in Ontario we pay artificially low rates for hydro (aka electricity) because the rates are subsidized.

I always thought it to be a ridiculous policy; show people the true cost of their usage and stop hiding taxes all over the place for everyone to make up the difference.

You can brag about low rates via monopoly, but someone else might be paying for em
> the picture in my head

Without first hand experience I would have "imagined" the same, but it's just not the case IRL.
For a while, the plan really was, as the article states, suppression. My grandfather (and great grandfather) worked for the FS and it was only later in his career that they started doing controlled burns again.

Where I live in Oregon, part of "why don't they do more?" is that there simply wasn't the money to do it, from what I understand, along with some of the other technical reasons mentioned in other comments.
> Either we do this voluntarily and as orderly as possible, or it just happens for us. Your response seems to indicate a complete unawareness of the impending situation our species is going to be facing.

I think it's a pretty natural reaction against the relentless push of this false choice by people who cannot imagine a third way that actually makes life better.

Your response seems to indicate a complete unawareness that there are other options besides enforced poverty.
No mobile support for now :(
TL;DR: bits stored in acoustic waves of mercury, strengthened constantly
The problem is that those populations lack the infrastructure and organization so they made the rivers ad-hoc trash disposal system. And it works too well for them.

It's not the plastic that's a problem. It's poverty and lack of organization of those regions. If humanity never invented the plastic those rivers would still be the most polluted (with population waste) rivers on the globe.
Why did you spend 200 words arguing for the premise of my second point? Usually one spends time arguing against your opponent but ok, sure, I'm glad we both prefer refining and manufacturing in friendly countries.

> [the commencement of mass production of Na batteries in the USA] refutes the core premise of your statement

How so? This plant is one tiny step on a very, very long road. I'm glad to see it happen, but extrapolating the outcome of a race from the first few steps would be incredibly foolish. China can build Na-ion too, so the question becomes whether the difference in chemistry creates an advantage for one party or another.

> unlike Li batteries, the materials are trivially sourced domestically

So China can cut out the only part of the supply chain that leans towards the US sphere of influence, while the US gets a discount on shipping? This isn't the own you think it is.
Public company CEO here. One of my rules that has served me well is "don't ever be on the other side of a transaction from private equity". They have blatantly anticompetitive playbooks where they buy up all the competition in a market and then raise prices as a cartel. Mostly recently, the DOJ has opened a criminal probe into RealPage for price fixing in real estate. What a scourge on capitalism.
I don't want to rent, I want to own. Monthly subscriptions are just perpetual renting.
Cats can smell those scent markings though. They do also mark their territory in other ways. Our cats really do the rubbing thing during feeding, so i think they are trying to mark their territory, lol.
Hi, I'm Tom
I often find myself struggling to ask relevant or useful questions in my meetings so I decided to see if I could use chatgpt to make a sort of meeting copilot. I was already experimenting with speech to text and openAI so I decided to try and combine them in real time. It started as just a bit of fun but it's became really useful for prompting questions during my meetings. I also thought it would be fun to add an AI fact checker and note taker which has been so useful!
I built it with Google's speech to text software so unfortunately it only works in Chrome right now. It also needs ambient audio for the microphone to pick up the meeting audio so headphones can't be used. If you can manage that though, it seems to be a fantastic experience! I hope some of you can give it a try and offer any feedback at all.
Cheers
Tom
I was merely hinting at the recent changes in American culture that made it so top-heavy and tempt half the population to press the self-destruct button each election since 2016. Since around that time I noticed the formerly enthusiastic spirit die down, mainly by an uptick of toxicity by Americans in formerly well-behaved online communities. Don't wanna get into the details, but you may be seeing some symptoms of it.

The 'elbow kinda guy' comes from the fact that you point out how you self-optimize (for economic benefit?) and call everyone else lazy, immature or fake. But I may have interpreted too much into this. Consider that there are different goals in life than maximizing your utility for The Machine.

As always, topics like these leave a lot unsaid and are difficult to productively discuss online...
Related:

The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217453

Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206063

I Witnessed the Future of AI, and It's a Broken Toy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205666
It's impressive that not only has private equity enshittified even nursing homes and wheelchairs, they have persuaded people to empower PE even more by reducting regulations. Do you think PE will suddenly change without regulation?

PE is responsible for PE's actions. If these services and goods decline under PE, with the same regulations as before, then the cause is clear.
> In a free market, if there is a market need for more efficient achievement of redress for wronged parties, the market will produce it.

In our current market, many companies have worked around redress of wronged parties by mandating arbitration in various contracts.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg
It would be really nice if there were a battery technology that could charge 100 miles in a few minutes, even if that meant you would be constantly charging on longer trips.
Ethics > lawyering. If they can't break x boards unqualified, then they can't do it. If they can break x boards specially arranged or modified, sure, but that's called "cheating". It's a gimmick.
I'm talking about fraction of vehicles, not fraction of different models available.
Thanks for the book looks interesting.
We're at a junction maybe all the crisis we witness today are a result of usury and fiat money. One thing for sure is that without all those mountains of money it would be harder to finance wars.
I thought your original post was a joke? "Never" is an exaggeration, and overselling Rust like that makes people think it's just hype.
that much range currently costs about $6000 for a Nissan replacement. Rumors are a longer range current EV battery like in the Ioniq is $50k to replace.
As the sibling comments noted, we're talking about bespoke wheelchairs for people with severe mobility disability (MS, ALS, etc). Things like Stephen Hawking's chair.
What does your gut tell you is the right choice?
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894735#c15. It was code specifically targeting Firefox on Windows to blame.
The issue here is denialism: people with legitimate issues caused by the vaccine reported their problems and aren't getting help. That is at least partly because the public health establishment chose to suppress information and research into COVID vaccine side-effects (whether caused by batch contamination or inherent in the vaccine itself). It took quite some time for the medical establishment to even admit widely that the side effects existed, and it's still hard for people to get compensation from VAERS.

Public health is effectively a multidimensional utilitarianism problem and the mainstream medical establishment chose to de-emphasize legitimate problems, likely because they considered it important to reach high vaccination rates, and any message that would cause people to decline the vaccine was viewed as affecting the rates significantly. Most of the major officials have done their mea culpas, and I think it's high time that we actually invest more into addressing vaccine side effects.

Anecdotally, I was at the doctor's office today and was offered shingrix since I'm over 50. Shingles is terrible, but my doctor basically talked me out of getting the vaccine, by explaining that it had significant and common side effects (sore arm, puffy arm, tired feeling) and that I wasn't really at high risk (other than my age). She also no longer prescribes dual vax (for example, flu + pneumo at the same time), also because of commonly reported side effects (again anecdotally, in my case when I got both, my whole left arm was useless for days and I felt sick, tired, and pained for over a week).
Hmm I never thought about it that way regarding connecting with other people but I like this
My comment was more to push back on the silly assertion that the only reason someone would like a fractional board is "trendy faux-minimalism".

I have a TKL on my PC and other than Insert (which I can't remember ever pressing on purpose in the last 15 years) the only other keys a 75% is missing are the cluster with print screen/scroll lock/break.

I'd be annoyed by a 75% if I used Insert for copy/paste etc and switched keyboards all the time, but I'm mostly on Mac so I'm used to Cmd+arrows instead of Home/End and Cmd+C/X/V. But it does have the extra strip on the right for some of those keys I do use, like Del. And now I can now hit every key on the board without really moving my hands much, including those that are normally on the Home cluster.

I could even do with a 65% but I don't want to have to switch layers to hit Esc, and actually do use the function keys for an IDE.
Classification gives you calibrated scores that you can use together with other information. A classifier may not be the ideal recommender by itself but it is a good component.

A probability score for “will he like it?” works as a ranking score in my experience with some caveats which aren’t so much about the score as a score but that recommendation is really a sequential problem. That is, if I get different versions of the same news article that all score 0.9, it might be OK to show me one or two articles from that list. I believe people’s satisfaction with an article is greatly influenced by being spammed with too much of the same thing and that is not so influenced by ranking scores.

I’ll go so far as to say full text search should also be treated as a classification problem, in particularly you need a probability score if you want to make a service like “Google Alerts” where you tell people about new marching documents. Also if you are trying to combine several radically different searchers (like IBM Watson did back in the day) the probability score is essential.
Is this proof that it's not AI generated?
How do think we should address security around AI, and the public's control over a major impact on their lives, welfare, freedom, prosperity, etc.
"The future looks somewhat difficult, better give up and go extinct"

Fortunately natural selection will remove this mindset eventually.

It's unfortunate that the species has to suffer it in the meantime.
We might think we have regulation for minimum standards, but that's not necessarily why regulations are created.
You shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie [video]
I do the same, but unfortunately need internet access on win 11 (for the same reason I need windows at all, a historic thin client upon which a large corporation I work for uses)… I could just run a cloud vm with windows 7 for the same purpose, but it breaks email and document “printing” pdf - or at least makes it super inconvenient.

Anyway - today the damn weather showed up on my win 11 taskbar to the extreme left. Click on it and a huge panel of crap opens. No obvious way to turn of these weather alerts. Even the start button sucks , full of crap. Pretty sure it made a Microsoft account automatically too through the parallels installer using my Mac credentials (ugh!)
Encoding speed is not really a concern for web uses, where the image is decoded potentially millions or even billions of times more than it is encoded.

I agree, PSNR is a terrible measure of quality. The study "Benchmarking JPEG XL lossy/lossless image compression" (https://research.google/pubs/benchmrking-jpeg-xl-lossylossle...) which you are an author on included a controlled subjective evaluation done by EPFL using an ITU recommend methodology. The subjective results concluded:

"HEVC with SCC generally results in better rate/distortion performance when compared to JPEG XL at low bitrates (< 0.75), better preserving sharp lines and
smooth areas"

It is known that AVIF performs better than HEVC. Can you say why it was not included in your 2020 subjective evaluation? It would be nice to not need to speculate on the relative quality of AVIF v JPEG XL at web bitrates.
Why would I buy something that kills me the day after the warranty expires?
And yet my motorcycle has gone 80,000 miles without ever needing any maintenance except for a new chain and new sets of tires. Well, I've had to replace the headlight and levers and shift peg because I've crashed it off-road multiple times but that's not the motorcycles fault. I bought it for $1000 used.
That's why, in spite of the whole consumer-to-consumer revolution, I came back fur circle to the traditional model. I know that if I buy a Packt book, it could be anything, and most probably it won't be useful to me. But if I buy a Manning book, I know that most probably it will be good even if I'm not interested in the subject. Why? Because the publisher did their job well.
Would you pay for a programming language?
Would you pay to buy a programming language? How much would you pay?
At this moment, not just yet. Once either the models have come down in size or hardware has caught up with the demands so they can be run locally it will become feasible to offer such functionality in a way which does not sacrifice privacy to convenience.
I’m not saying it shouldn’t be looked into.

I’m saying the headline overplays the danger and is the kind of irresponsible sensationalism that has lead to a massive increase in vaccine denialism.
Haha, of course. Carbon taxes can't be a cash grab if they're revenue neutral which is easy to do: just evenly split by each taxpayer+dependents and send it back as a tax credit. In fact, that's exactly how it's done right now in many places that implement it.

But no algae farms, sorry. Sort of illustrates the point perfectly hahaha.
There are jokes about all instruments, but some seem to get the brunt of them. In orchestra it’s the viola
It takes a while to build the habit, but I personally have a 'general' group that serves for my regular browsing. If I find I've got a whole bunch of tabs for a topic I'm working on, I create a new group from them. I clear out the general group regularly.
Not all regulation causes costs to go up. Some causes costs to go down, for example, by correcting inefficiencies created by raw game-theory market competition. Some reduce costs by creating a safer environment for investment, reducing risk. Regulation serves market participants too.
Right, just like ordering an Uber at a busy airport "this is taking longer than expected but we're still working on it..."
> While renewables capture an inexhaustible source of energy (Sun)

Fortunately that solar panels require no resources to create, require no maintenance, and take no subsidies to maintain as an industry!
You can read a paper about it.[1]

Keeping tabs around as a reminder to work on them or keep track of progress

Keeping frequently used tabs for quick access; has a diminishing return

Avoid closing tabs in fear of missing out on valuable information

The hopes to process more info than capable; while aware of the situation

Memory and mental model; Organize tasks with windows, desktops, browsers

Difficulties in judging the current and potential relevance of tabs in the future

[1] https://joe.cat/CHI-browser-tabs/
Your board holders also have a significant input on your success. If they hold the board, but let their arms flex, then they absorb too much of the energy of the strike. They can make it easier for you as well, by flexing the board inwards towards them.

I've gone through boards with a one inch punch with barely any effort, and also failed several times, and it has always been down to the person or persons holding the board for me.
Three things are different in the Netherlands:

1. Almost everyone cycles. So all drivers are themselves cyclists. So they treat other cyclists with consideration.

2. The road/cycle infrastructure is set up to separate cars and bikes wherever possible. And where they share routes, cars are often explicitly second class users ("auto te gast" - cars, you're guests).

3. In any collision between a car and a bike, the driver will almost always be the one found at fault.
It's literally a Tinder-style swipe interface for musician matching. I recommend taking a realistic look at your competition.
Digital records are valuable for health in several cases, for example, when the patient needs or wants all their records.
Thank you! I do see your point about the differentiation, perhaps I can think of something more valuable to offer than code import
I like these

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Philips-announces-three-new-mo...
Ban oil exports. Why are we selling our oil overseas?

I would also be OK with tariffs on exports, but they are not legal (it's in the constitution: concession for southern states, protecting their cotton exports).

Also: fix Venezuela.
Looks good. Wish it was a website though.
We need an open dating platform. "OpenHinge"?
What Can We Learn from the Ruins of Gary, Indiana?
Losing one bit of entropy to generate a prime that's definitely not only 50 bits long seems like a worthy tradeoff.
Big time.

In some cases where hospitals do paper charting, it can be mis charted.

or, there can be issues with not recording medication as being given or not, and the patient can miss their dose because a nurse thinks it was given. There is some cases where such confusion is tolerated depending on the patient.
Does the app feature music by musicians? As a musician that's what I'd expect to see myself, because seeing a bunch of people only talking about what they do is useless in terms of conveying style and skill. It also enables scammers and fraud if people aren't required to at least upload a video of themselves in action.

Back in the old days, we had a local paper that allowed musicians to connect from a classified section, and boy was it scary meeting some of the strangers that posted in there to jam.
BPA-free shouldn't offer any comfort.

Manufacturers simply replace BPA with similar alternatives which aren't as widely known by consumers (BPS or BPF for example).